Our week behind the lens: Photos

Here is gallery of photos depicting a typical week of life on the South Coast of NSW as captured by newspaper photographers from Nowra to Eden and all points between...

Our week behind the lens: Photos

MERIMBULA: Walkers step it out in sunshine ... Sapphire Coast Walkers enjoy the beauty of Merimbula Lake from the Spencer Park jetty.

NAROOMA: Eurobodalla Shire Council heritage consultant Pip Giovanelli on site with Narooma Uniting Church Rev David Oliphant, Narooma Historical Society’s Susan Pryke and Rob Mathieson and a gathering of several parishioners and society members. Photo Laurelle Pacey

SHELLHARBOUR: Hundreds of people gathered at Shallows, Shellharbour to farewell young Albion Park resident Casey-lee Hull, who tragically died in a car accident. Picture ELIZA WINKLER

SHELLHARBOUR: Mt Terry Public School students Grace and Jack Debnam-Koning taking part in sound connect therapy. Picture: GEORGIA MATTS

MORUYA: Thirsty Merc will headline Granite Town Moruya’s Jazz, Food and Funk Festival on October 17 to 19.

BEMBOKA/TATHRA: Tathra Rugby League Club president Chris Sly and life member Maureen Waterson display a football that washed up on Tathra Beach in the 1980s and which is now a trophy on display in the Bemboka pub.

MERIMBULA: Spectacular... Southern Right whales mother and calf put on a great display much to the delight of patrons at the Merimbula Wharf Restaurant.

MERIMBULA: Meals on Wheels is more than food ... MOW volunteers offered passers by in Merimbula's CBD a taste of roast beef and pea and ham soup to show the nutritious quality of the food.Joy Arndell, left, Donna Nicoll, Michele Ling and Helen Kuriger.

MERIMBULA: Big chill hits Merimbula... winter struck with a vengeance - 0.5 degrees including Sunday morning when the Zen Dragon Boat Club members had to break the ice to remove the boat's tarpaulin cover.

MORUYA: The new 20-bed sub-acute ward at Moruya District Hospital is taking shape, slated to be operational by the end of the month. Pictured is Pharmacist Andrew McKeon, who is already dispensing from the ward’s new pharmacy.

MERIMBULA: They lit up the stage...Merimbula PS students captivated audiences at the Sapphire Coast Learning Community Performing Arts Festival with their performance of Arabian Nights, Welcome to Agrabah.

PAMBULA: They got out their old flares, fringes, psychedelic prints and rocked on down at the Pambula Panthers AFL annual fundraising event, Saturday, August 2 at the Pambula Beach Sports Complex.Katie Brown, left, Mallory Hammond and Tyjana Thelan.

BEGA/TATHRA: Some of the first Bega men to enlist during World War I, 1914, wait on Tathra Wharf to embark on ship "Merimbula". Photo courtesy of the State Library of NSW

BEMBOKA: An icy morning in the Bega Valley is captured in superb detail by Bemboka’s Helmut Eder. Monday’s morning’s sub-zero start was among the coldest August temperatures recorded for the Bega Valley.

KIAMA: There were smiles all around as Gerringong Public School performed at Kiama's Music In The Park during Education week. Picture: GEORGIA MATTS

KIAMA: Artist, photographer and poet Lea Tucker in her studio taking part in the Kiama Art Trail. Picture: GEORGIA MATTS

NAROOMA: This Subaru station wagon ended up balanced on the embankment at Midtown Narooma after a car parking accident.

NAROOMA: Pictured after cutting off the can, without further damage to the finger, is Narooma Rescue Squad member Jeff Garrad with Tex and his mum Kate Bourke.

TATHRA: The mystery creature identified by Jason Moyce on Google Earth suspended in the crystal clear waters of the bay at the entrance to Nelson Lagoon.

BATEMANS BAY: Bruce McKenzie employed a team of 11 consultants to plan for his Surfside home build, which was constructed on land deemed at risk of sea-level rise.

BATEMANS BAY: The support unit class at Batemans Bay High School is “super excited” about having its film entered into a national competition. To vote visit www.focusonability.com.au/FOA/films/The_Not_So_Secret_Life_of_Us_732.html

BATEMANS BAY: According to the Bureau of Metereology, the weather reached a record breaking low of -2.3 degrees for the month of August this week. Horses at Oaks Ranch were not immune from feeling the cold.

EUROBODALLA: The recruitment process is continuing for a Parkinson’s nurse for the region. Funding for the position was announced in April however a suitable candidate has not yet been found. Pictured is Southern NSW Medicare Local’s Nina Holland and CEO Kathryn Stonestreet.

MORUYA: Horses are teaching youth at-risk of dropping out of school lifelong lessons at a grassroots program at a Moruya property. Pictured is Moruya High School Tutorial Centre students Ewan Hughes and Braydon Strudwick with Adrian Feirer and a relaxed Mocha.

EDEN: Eden's Margaret Kirkwood is one of 12 Bega Valley residents being recognised for their community service in Bega.

EDEN: Builder, and anti-demolition campaigner for the Hotel Australasia, Peter Whiter, looks into the foyer of the pub, which has stood empty and derelict since it closed in May 2010. A last minute offer by the developer to sell-off the front 12 or so metres of the building, could see the remaining heritage facade and features restored and saved.

ULLADULLA: A driver who swerved to avoid hitting a kangaroo has had a lucky escape, after his car rolled at Kioloa on Thursday night.

ULLADULLA: Wally (left) and Tom Cupitt are looking forward to making their first batch of beer in the district’s first commercial brewery.

ULLADULLA: A RINGING fire alarm saved the lives of a woman and her twin four-year-old sons as fire took hold in their Conjola Park home early on Friday morning. Michael McPherson had already left for work delivering papers at the Milton Newsagency when the fire alarm started sounding about 3.30am, waking wife Kristy.

NOWRA: The scene of an armed robbery in Culburra in June. Police are investigating it in relation to Thursday morning's hold-up in St Georges Basin.

NOWRA: A West Nowra man has praised Fire and Rescue NSW crews who saved his home after a fire gutted an attached garage in the early hours of Wednesday morning.The fire gutted the garage, destroying a number of restored pushbikes and other machinery.